false 4652 15 No writer has been more efficiently overshadowed by his imitators than Ernest Hemingway. From the moment he unleashed his stripped-down, declarative sentences on the world, he began breeding entire generations of miniature Hemingways, who latched on to his subtractive style without ever wondering what he'd removed, or why. And his tendency to lapse into self-parody during the latter half of his career didn't help matters. But <I>In Our Time</I>, which Hemingway published in 1925, reminds us of just how fresh and accomplished his writing could be--and gives at least an inkling of why Ezra Pound could call him the finest prose stylist in the world.<p> In his first commercially published book (following the small-press appearance of <I>Three Stories and Ten Poems</I> in 1924), Hemingway was still wearing his influences on his sleeve. The vignettes between each story smack of Gertrude Stein, whose minimalist punctuation and clodhopping rhythms he was happy to borrow. "My Old Man" sounds like Huck Finn on the Grand Tour: "Well, we went to live at Maisons-Lafitte, where just about everybody lives except the gang at Chantilly, with a Mrs. Meyers that runs a boarding house. Maisons is about the swellest place to live I've ever seen in all my life." But in the "The Battler" or "Indian Camp" or "Big Two-Hearted River," Hemingway finds his own voice, shunning the least hint of rhetorical inflation and sticking to just the facts, ma'am. His reluctance to traffic in high-flown abstraction has often been chalked up to postwar disillusion--as though he were too much of a simpleton to make deliberate stylistic decisions. Still, nobody can read "Soldier's Home" without drawing a certain connection between the two. Returning home to Oklahoma, the hero finds that his tales of combat are now a bankrupt genre: <blockquote> Even his lies were not sensational at the pool room. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed accounts of German women found chained to machine guns in the Argonne forest and who could not comprehend, or were barred by their patriotism from interest in, any German machine gunners who were not chained, were not thrilled by his stories. </blockquote> If we are to believe Michael Reynolds and Ann Douglas, this passage reflects the author's own dreary homecoming as a member of the lost generation. It's also a fine example of a surprisingly rare phenomenon, at least at this point in his career: Hemingway being funny. <I>--James Marcus</I> 8261 1925 In Our Time total:2481|5:683|4:930|3:670|2:166|1:32| 2481 9509 3224 148 3 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 16 14:52:27 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 02 14:20:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Apr 13 20:54:41 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 25 15:23:01 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 13 20:54:41 -0700 2009 Many Ernest Hemingway Short Story book club, I will write reviews of the stories that strike my fancy and add them to the books from whence they came.

Cat in the Rain -- This story represents one of my favourite aspects of Hemingway's work -- his simplicity.

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I gave it three stars ("liked it") but then came back within an hour to upgrade it to four stars ("really liked it"). I'm certai...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 14:01:37 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 08:08:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 26 01:56:37 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 01:59:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 07 19:45:30 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 19:48:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 16:25:42 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 07:09:20 -0700 2009 In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
(from Indian Camp)

This is a nice little collection of very, very short stories by Ernest Hemingway. I really enjoyed the Nick Adams stories and thos...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4652